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Court opinions issued Mar. 3, 2020

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

James Madison Proj. v. DOJ (D.D.C.) -- concluding that DOJ properly relied on Exemption 1 to withhold records concerning an application made to the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court regarding Carter Page, rejecting plaintiff’s argument that a White House press release constituted a declassification order from President Trump.

Wattleton v. Berryhill (D.D.C.) -- determining that plaintiff failed to rebut Social Security Administration’s claim that it never received his undated and unsigned request for records concerning himself, and that his subsequent Privacy Act claim for the same records failed to provide information about himself required by agency policies.

Summaries of all published opinions issued since April 2015 are available here.